Knockdown table



(No Model.)

B. s'. MOLYNBUX.

KNOGKDOWN TABLE.

PatentedfJam 4,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EAETON s. IIIOLYNEUX, OE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

KNOCKDOWN TABLE. f

sPncIIiIoATIoN forming part of :Letters Patent No.355,618. dated January 4,1887. Application filed May 24, 1886. Serial No. 203.676. (No model.)

To all whom. may concern.-

Be it known that I, BARTON S. MOLYNEUX, a citizen of the UnitedtStatesesiding at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdowu Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to yknockdown tables in which the legs are detachable from the table top and rails and from each other.

Tlfe principal Objects of the improvements are to enable the tables to be-packed and shipped in small bulk, and to render the legs and tops interchangeable.

The invention consists, generally, in enlarging the top of the legs and providing sockets in the table-corners, in to which the enlarged ends of the legs can b e'passedin aslanting position, but from which they cannot be withdrawn while in substantially vertical position, and then providing a key for pressing the legs outward and holding them to a vertical position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line :rx of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the table inverted. Fig. 4 is the same with the legs removed. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the key, for holding the legs apart. Fig. 6 is an'elevationof a modi lied form of the table, and Fig. 7 is a perspec- 197,147, of November 13, 1877, and the pattive View of a corner of the inverted table.

A represents the table-top, and B the rails, which are secured together in the usual Inanner.

C C C2 C3 are the tablelegs, which have the inner side of their upper ends projecting inwardly in curved or angular form, as shown at c, for fitting in receding sockets, and f are the sockets in the four corners, formed by the triangular strips e, fastened to the rails B, and

the blocks a, secured on the under surface of the top A. The ends ofl the blocks a toward the table-corners are beveled at their under sides, forming recesses between the blocks and table-top to receive the projecting ends c of the legs. The ends c of the legs are inserted by inclining the legs toward the center of the table,and then turning them outward to an upright position. The blocks a prevent the legs from moving farther outward,fand also from being removed lengthwise, and the strips tions of the legs are made to approach a common center, and their proximate surfaces incline on planes toward a common point,

D is a key or wedge having inclined groove d, into which the middle portions of the legs C, Ste., t. When the upper ends of the legs have been iitted into their sockets, the key D is pressed down between the middle inclined portions of the legs, pressing them outward to la proper degree of rigidity, and the tablelegs are thus held firmly in place.

In Fig. 6 is illustrated a modified form of the table, in which the upper ends ofthe legs are constructed as in the table above described, and like sockets are provided forreceiving the ends ofthe legs, but in which the legs h are made relatively straight with just sufficiently inward swell near the feet to allow a notched board, k, to be pressed down between them and force them outward to arigid vertical position. f

It is obvious that other modifications involving changes of form ofthe legs and ofthe key for holding them apart, as Well as in construction of the sockets for the tops ofthe legs, can be easily made without departing from the principle of operation of my improvee prevent lateral movement. The middle porments; hence I do not desire to be limited to i ent to Bon, No. 333,500, and make no claimt matter therein shown and described.

I do not claim herein aV construction in which the legs are held in sockets in the tabletop by means of a key and nut, which serve to prevent thelegs from being spread apart, such construction being the subject-matter of an application filed by me July 15, 1886, and No. 208,098.

Vhat Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, Witha tabletop and rails,

of the pieces e and blocks a, forming thesoeket f, the tabledegs C, having curved upper ends c, and the k/ey D, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

BARTON S. MOLYN EUX. Witnesses:

N. LEwIs, 2P. H. GUNOKEL. 

